Recaps

Lu Yuan completed Daoist Yin Yang and advanced to the Late Daluo realm, while Life and Death Daoist entered the newborn Netherworld to establish the Ghost Immortal Great Dao and contest authority over the Hungry Ghost Path. Old ancestor Minghe discovered his efforts and resolved to claim control of the Asura Path.

• Daoist Yin Yang was severed successfully, deepening Lu Yuan’s grasp of Yin Yang and allowing him to reach the Late Daluo Great Luo Dao Lord realm.
• Life and Death Daoist observed the Twelve Ancestral Witches surveying the Netherworld as Old ancestor Minghe mourned the diminished Sea of Blood and had his Blood God Sons devour discarded soul fragments.
• Life and Death Daoist identified the rise of Primal Heavenly Ghosts and secretly planted Ghost Immortal Dao seeds, gradually establishing the cultivation path over ten thousand years.
• Life and Death Daoist found a basin filled with Primal Heavenly Ghosts and began contending for Hungry Ghost Path authority by establishing the Life and Death Cycle Curtain around Yin Mountain.
• Old ancestor Minghe sensed the clash of Great Daos, recognized Life and Death Daoist as an incarnation of Qingxuanzi, and resolved that he alone would rule the Asura Path.

Life and Death Daoist established the Ghost Immortal Dao and seized forty percent of the Hungry Ghost Path’s Reincarnation Authority, but three rival Dao lineages and other powers challenged his position. Lu Yuan chose to focus on comprehending the Reincarnation Great Dao and strengthening his foundations as the struggle for the Six Paths intensified.

• Life and Death Daoist converted Primal Heavenly Ghosts, gained forty percent of the Hungry Ghost Path’s Reincarnation Authority, and founded the Ghost Immortal Dao domain.
• Three mysterious Great Divine Ability Users established the Ghost God, Demonic Ghost, and Ghost Devil lineages, contesting Life and Death Daoist’s authority; Shangqing Tongtian Cult Master reinforced his foundation.
• Yuqing Primordial Heavenly Venerate entered the contest, while Houtu guarded the Hell Path, Kunpeng claimed the Animal Path, Old Ancestor Minghe secured the Asura Path, and Jieyin and Zhunti carved out the Pure Land Hell.
• Lu Yuan received Life and Death Daoist’s reports, ordered Yin-Yang to spread the Rune Immortal Dao among the Human Race, and resolved to comprehend reincarnation to prepare his third Dao Fruit avatar.
• Lu Yuan sent his Divine Sense to Life and Death Daoist, who held his ground as Jieyin and Zhunti struggled to expand the Pure Land Hell.
• Houtu infused the Six Paths of Reincarnation Disk with Reincarnation Origin Power, making the Netherworld’s reincarnation laws clearer.

Xihe sent a fragment of her soul into reincarnation to take revenge on Houyi, and it was reborn as Chang'e, who married him before regaining her memories. When Chang'e's pill drew her to the Moon, Houyi fought Xihe to rescue her, but Wangshu intervened and separated them.

• Xihe defied Dijun and severed part of her origin, sending its vengeful soul fragment toward reincarnation; Wangshu purified it, and Houtu allowed it to enter the Human Path.
• The fragment was reborn as Chang'e, who grew up near Peach Mountain and met Houyi beneath an osmanthus tree; they married and lived together in the mountains.
• Afraid of growing old, Chang'e swallowed the Divine Pill bestowed by a lunar goddess, awakening Xihe's memories and triggering the Moon's summons that carried her to the Taiyin Star.
• Houyi pursued Chang'e to the Moon Palace and fought Xihe, who imprisoned Chang'e and attacked him in revenge for her nine sons.
• Wangshu stopped the battle, restrained Xihe, and sealed Houyi's power, sentencing him to chop the cassia tree while he and Chang'e remained apart forever.

After Xihe’s actions brought the Witch and Yao Races to the brink of war outside the Taiyin Star, Sage Taiqing intervened and forced both sides to withdraw. Lu Yuan sensed the brief calm would not last and resolved to reach Daluo Perfected before the calamity ended.

• Empress Houtu recognized Wangshu’s use of Taiyin power to guide Xihe’s divided soul into reincarnation without defying the Heavenly Dao.
• Dijun and Taiyi learned of Xihe’s actions, while Dijiang ordered the Witch Race to prepare for war and rescue Houyi from Guanghan Palace.
• The Witch and Yao Races confronted each other beyond the Taiyin Star, with Dijiang demanding Houyi and Xihe’s divided soul and Dijun refusing.
• Sage Taiqing halted the impending battle, declared that the clans’ final reckoning was not yet due, and ordered both sides to return home.
• Lu Yuan sensed Sage Taiqing’s intervention and judged that the suppressed calamity would intensify, so he resolved to form a third Dao Fruit incarnation and reach Daluo Perfected.

Lu Yuan seized control of the Hungry Ghost Path, became its Dao Master, and used its fortune and origin to forge an Innate Spiritual Treasure suited to reincarnation. He severed his third Dao Fruit incarnation, reached Great Luo Dao Lord Perfected, and turned his attention to the imminent decisive battle between the Witch and Demon Clans.

• Lu Yuan resolved to claim the Hungry Ghost Path Dao Master position so he could obtain the reincarnation treasure and authority needed to sever a third incarnation.
• Life and Death Daoist fought Emperor Shenyou, Demon Lord Yinmo, and Daoist Xuanyin, then drew on Lu Yuan's fortune and merit to suppress them and take the Hungry Ghost Path authority.
• The Netherworld recognized Life and Death Daoist as Hungry Ghost Path Dao Master, and Lu Yuan used the path's origin, fortune, and merit to condense the Reincarnation Talisman Plate.
• Lu Yuan used the Talisman Plate and his perfected reincarnation Dao seed to sever the Reincarnation Daoist from his true spirit.
• Lu Yuan reached Great Luo Dao Lord Perfected after four kalpas of closed-door cultivation, as the decisive battle between the Witch and Demon Clans approached.

As the Witch-Demon war erupted, both clans unleashed formations powerful enough to threaten the Great Desolation, and Lu Yuan feared the Yao Race might prevail. Qiangliang fell to Dijun’s Witch-Slaying Sword, but Xuanming struck down Tengshe—only for the real Tengshe to reveal he had survived through a substitute body hidden with Empress Nuwa’s help.

• Dijun entrusted the Tenth Golden Crow Prince to Empress Nuwa, who accepted him as her Registered Disciple, while Dijiang sent Jiu Feng and other young Witch elites to the Netherworld to preserve their race.
• After Hongjun’s ten-kalpa prohibition expired, the Witch and Yao Clans began their decisive battle, and their formations unleashed Hunyuan-level power that devastated the Great Desolation.
• The formations collapsed, and Dijun’s ambush killed Qiangliang despite Dijiang and Zhu Jiuyin’s efforts to protect Chi You.
• Lu Yuan worried that Dijun’s advantage could lead to the Witch Race’s extinction and threaten his Qingxu Dao Field.
• Xuanming pierced Tengshe with Houtu’s God-Shattering Spear and joined the fight against Dijun, while the real Tengshe appeared in Wa Huang Palace and explained that the fallen Tengshe had been a substitute.

Tengshe, Qinyuan, and Fei Lian fell as the battle between the Wu and Yao escalated, while Taiyi suppressed four Ancestral Witches and approached the Half-Saint realm. Ru Shou, Zhurong, and Tian Wu destroyed themselves to break the Chaos Bell’s defenses, and Taiyi’s final counterattack killed Zhu Jiuyin before Taiyi also perished.

• Dijun confirmed Tengshe had died, then fought Xuanming as Dijiang faced Qinyuan and Fei Lian.
• Dijiang killed Qinyuan and Fei Lian, then joined Xuanming in attacking Dijun.
• Taiyi used the Chaos Bell to suppress Zhu Jiuyin, Zhurong, Tian Wu, and Ru Shou, and his cultivation began to approach the Half-Saint realm.
• Ru Shou self-destructed against Taiyi, followed by Zhurong and Tian Wu, breaking through the Chaos Bell’s defenses and severely wounding Taiyi.
• Taiyi detonated his remaining soul and incomplete Half-Saint Dao Fruit, killing Zhu Jiuyin before he too perished; the cracked Chaos Bell remained in the void.

The Yao Race Heavenly Court crumbled as Fuxi and Xihe fell, and the Sages clashed over the Chaos Bell. Kunpeng stole the He Tu Luo Shu and escaped while Dijun stayed behind, cursing Kunpeng and Tengshe with recurring calamities before facing the Witch Race.

• She Bi Shi sacrificed himself to poison Fuxi, whose fading true spirit was rescued by Nuwa, while Gonggong killed Xihe with Weak Water.
• The Sages fought over the fallen Chaos Bell, and Dijun lamented the collapse of the Yao Race Heavenly Court as the Witch Race surrounded him.
• Kunpeng exploited the chaos to steal the He Tu Luo Shu and escape, while Dijun's attempt to destroy him through the Monster Summoning Banner failed.
• Dijun ordered Bai Ze, Ji Meng, and the other surviving Yao Race leaders to flee, then remained behind to hold off the Witch Race.
• Dijun burned his remaining fortune and karmic fate-lines to curse Tengshe and Kunpeng with a tribulation in every epoch.

After Dijun sacrificed himself to kill Dijiang and Ju Mang, grief-stricken Gonggong charged into Buzhou Mountain and broke the Pillar of Heaven, unleashing a world-ending catastrophe. Lu Yuan fortified his Dao Field as the Great Desolation began to collapse, while the Sages’ struggle for the Chaos Bell stalled.

• Dijun compressed his remaining power and self-destructed, killing Dijiang and Ju Mang and grievously wounding Xuanming.
• Gonggong saw that nearly all the Ancestral Witches had perished and that the Sages and other powerful beings were waiting to seize the spoils.
• Gonggong gathered the Witch-Demon Calamity’s baleful aura and charged into Buzhou Mountain, breaking the weakened Pillar of Heaven.
• The shattered heavens opened to chaotic qi and torrents of Weak Water, while falling stars and splitting land devastated the Great Desolation.
• Lu Yuan reinforced the Qingxu Dao Field against the catastrophe and saw that the Sages’ battle for the Chaos Bell had stalled.

After the Chaos Bell vanished into the void, the broken Buzhou Mountain unleashed a world-destroying flood of Chaos Qi, and the Six Saints, Sacred Beasts, and Zhenyuanzi worked together to stabilize the Primordial World. Empress Nuwa completed the repair of the heavens with refined five-colored stones, while new pillars made from the Black Tortoise’s limbs were forged to support the sky.

• Zhunti used Heavenly Dao power to strike the Chaos Bell, sending it into the void, and Taiqing deduced that Heavenly Dao opposed its reunification with the other creation treasures.
• Lu Yuan sensed the destruction caused by Buzhou Mountain’s collapse and reinforced his Qingxu Dao Field with the power of his three Dao Fruit avatars.
• The Six Saints, Four Great Sacred Beasts, and Zhenyuanzi suppressed the collapsing Primordial World and contained the destructive torrents.
• Taiqing assigned Nuwa to mend the heavens, Tongtian Cult Master to sever the Black Tortoise’s limbs, and the other Saints to forge them into pillars.
• Tongtian Cult Master severed the Black Tortoise’s four limbs, and the Saints forged them into pillars while Nuwa refined five-colored stones in the Creation Qiankun Cauldron.
• Nuwa poured the refined stone slurry into the heavenly rift and finished repairing the firmament with Heavenly Dao reinforcement.

The Sages restored the Primordial World after the calamity and received Heavenly Dao Merit, while Lu Yuan discovered that the Black Tortoise's unresolved karmic debt threatened the Interception Sect and might connect to a future Human Race Earthly Emperor. Dao Ancestor Hongjun summoned the Sages to Purple Heaven Palace, leaving Lu Yuan wary of a new upheaval as he returned to stabilize his cultivation.

• The Sages installed the hidden Black Tortoise Giant Pillars, stabilized the shattered world, and decided to leave its damaged Spirit Veins unrepaired.
• The Heavenly Dao awarded merit to Nuwa, Tongtian, the other Sages, the Four Great Sacred Beasts, Zhenyuanzi, the Black Tortoise True Spirit, and Lu Yuan.
• Lu Yuan recognized that the Black Tortoise's severed path to the Dao had created karmic debt tied to Tongtian and the Interception Sect, and he suspected the True Spirit would become the Human Race's Earthly Emperor.
• Dao Ancestor Hongjun summoned the Sages to Purple Heaven Palace, and they set out for Chaos while Houtu worried about the Netherworld's stability.
• Lu Yuan sensed Hongjun's true presence, considered the dangers to come, and returned to his Dao Palace to stabilize his cultivation.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun re-established the Heavenly Court by appointing Haotian and Yaochi as its rulers, rejecting the candidates proposed by the six sages. He declared the Human Race the protagonists of the next era and left the sages to acknowledge the new rulers, while Zhunti immediately offered Western Teachings’ support.

• Hongjun summoned the six sages to Purple Firmament Palace and announced that he would choose a new Heavenly Emperor to restore order to Heaven and Earth.
• Nuwa recommended Fuxi, Yuqing Primordial Heavenly Venerate recommended Immortal Elder Nanji, Tongtian Cult Master recommended Qingxuanzi, and Zhunti recommended Maitreya, while the sages argued over who should rule.
• Sage Taiqing proposed that Hongjun decide, and Hongjun appointed Haotian and Yaochi as Heavenly Emperor and Heavenly Empress, bestowing the Haotian Mirror, the Innate Ren Shui Peach Spirit Root, and the Plain Cloud World Flag upon them.
• Hongjun explained that Haotian and Yaochi had no factional ties, declared the Human Race the protagonists of the next era, and allowed the sages to seek merit by helping them.
• After Hongjun departed, Zhunti and Jieyin congratulated Haotian and Yaochi, and Zhunti offered Western Teachings’ assistance to the new Heavenly Court.

Haotian and Yaochi sought the Sages’ support for rebuilding the Heavenly Court, but most refused or warned them to respect their interests. Tongtian offered only to let willing disciples serve, leaving Haotian to face the long and difficult task largely alone.

• Yuqing Primordial Heavenly Venerate, Tongtian, and Sage Taiqing warned Haotian to accommodate their sects and the Human Race’s rise, while Empress Nuwa showed no interest in helping him.
• Haotian asked the Sages to support the newly established Heavenly Court, but Sage Taiqing, Primordial Heavenly Venerate, and Empress Nuwa each declined.
• Daoist Zhunti lamented the West’s poverty and asked Haotian to support it, leaving Haotian uncertain how to answer.
• Tongtian said he would not stop disciples who willingly chose to serve the Heavenly Court, and Haotian gratefully accepted the limited offer.
• The Sages departed the Purple Cloud Palace, and Haotian sighed over the perilous burden of rebuilding the Heavenly Court without their help.

Lu Yuan awakened the White Jade Plate by feeding it precious World Origin, and it revealed that Taiyi’s final explosion had opened a tiny breach between the Great Desolation and the Other Shore Universe. After learning that the Other Shore’s Fate Net might bring an Immeasurable Tribulation—and that Demon Ancestor Luohu had reached that universe—Lu Yuan resolved to prove the Dao of Hunyuan as soon as possible.

• Lu Yuan sensed the White Jade Plate stir and fed it treasured Innate Spiritual Items containing World Origin until its damaged surface began to recover.
• The White Jade Plate showed Lu Yuan how Taiyi’s destruction had briefly torn open the Great Desolation’s boundary and sent a fragment of his True Spirit into the Other Shore Universe.
• Lu Yuan saw the Other Shore’s nine rulers and Fate Net, which enforced predetermined destinies, and realized that the opposing universes’ laws could lead to a devastating Immeasurable Tribulation.
• The White Jade Plate revealed a corrupted figure bearing Primordial Demonic Qi in the Other Shore’s Dark Abyss, and Lu Yuan recognized Demon Ancestor Luohu.
• Lu Yuan concluded that Luohu might guide the Other Shore toward the Great Desolation and vowed to prove the Dao of Hunyuan to survive the coming crisis.

Haotian and Yaochi restored the Heavenly Court and proclaimed their rule, but found few immortals willing to serve and no support from the Saints. As Haotian began recruiting followers, Lu Yuan sought Tongtian Cult Master’s permission to pursue the Heavenly Court’s highest authority through one of his Dao Fruit incarnations.

• Dao Ancestor Hongjun’s golden light rebuilt the Heavenly Court, and Yaochi planted the Innate Ren Shui Peach Tree, which grew into a garden of three thousand six hundred peach trees.
• Haotian proclaimed himself Heavenly Emperor and Yaochi Heavenly Empress, prompting wary reactions from Lu Ya, Kunpeng, Old Ancestor Minghe, Bai Ze, and other powers.
• Few immortals answered Haotian’s recruitment decree, so he appointed Tai Bai Jin Xing and vowed to build his own strength with positions, peaches, palaces, and spiritual treasures.
• The Saints watched Haotian’s efforts without offering support, while the Western Saints considered how to gain from the Heavenly Court.
• Lu Yuan visited Tongtian Cult Master and said he wanted one of his Dao Fruit incarnations to take office in the Heavenly Court and claim its supreme authority.

Lu Yuan persuaded Shangqing Tongtian Cult Master to support his bid for the Northern Pole Ziwei Imperial Position so he could gather resources and gradually bring the Heavenly Court under the Mystic Gate's control. At Shouyang Mountain, Yuqing Primordial Heavenly Venerate agreed with the plan and taught Lu Yuan the Dao One Seal to separate his own karma from the Heavenly Court's.

• Lu Yuan explained to Shangqing Tongtian Cult Master that the Ziwei position would help him cultivate his Dao, spread his lineages, and gather resources to prove Hunyuan.
• Shangqing Tongtian Cult Master agreed to take Lu Yuan to consult Taiqing Laozi and Yuqing Primordial Heavenly Venerate about the plan.
• At Eight Sceneries Palace, Yuqing Primordial Heavenly Venerate approved dividing Haotian's authority among the Six Imperials and using the Heavenly Court to spread the Mystic Gate's Dao Tradition.
• Yuqing Primordial Heavenly Venerate warned that Heavenly Court karma could harm Lu Yuan's Dao and offered him the Dao One Seal.
• Lu Yuan received the Dao One Seal and witnessed its visions of chaos, Pangu, karma, and the creation of Heaven and Earth.

Lu Yuan learned Yuqing Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s Dao One Seal and heard the Sanqing arrange their sects’ roles in guiding the rising Human Race. He left Shouyang Mountain determined to pursue the vacant Ziwei Imperial Position while Fuxi’s planned reincarnation emerged as a key development.

• Yuqing Primordial Heavenly Venerate taught Lu Yuan the Dao One Seal, which could conceal karma by letting its user grasp the origin of destiny, and explained his ambition to make his will the Heavenly Dao’s will.
• Sage Taiqing presented the Kongtong Seal and proposed that Chan Sect and Jie Sect disciples assist the eight future Human sovereigns in exchange for merit and a role in the Human Race’s rise.
• Yuqing Primordial Heavenly Venerate sent Guangchengzi, Chijingzi, Yunzhongzi, and other Chan Sect disciples to assist the Human Emperors, while Shangqing Tongtian Cult Master reserved the Earthly Emperor’s tutelage for Jie Sect and offered support to Chan Sect disciples.
• Lu Yuan asked whether Empress Nuwa had been consulted, and Sage Taiqing revealed that Fuxi would reincarnate into the Human Race to restore his Dao foundation through its destiny and merit.
• Sage Taiqing warned Lu Yuan to guard his Dao foundation as he pursued the Ziwei Imperial Position, and Lu Yuan departed Shouyang Mountain with Shangqing Tongtian Cult Master, resolved to claim it.

In Biyou Palace, Tongtian warned Lu Yuan not to take a Heavenly Emperor’s station before his cultivation and foundation were sufficient, and Lu Yuan relinquished his post overseeing Jie Sect rules to Duobao. Back at Qingxu Mountain, Lu Yuan realized an unknown power had subtly altered his thoughts, and he feared that Hongjun or the Heavenly Dao had manipulated him as a chess piece.

• Tongtian warned Lu Yuan that claiming a lofty Heavenly Court position without sufficient cultivation would invite calamity, and Lu Yuan vowed to focus on perfecting his Dao.
• Tongtian praised Lu Yuan’s potential to prove Hunyuan and urged him to pursue his Dao even if the Jie Sect’s fortune declined.
• Lu Yuan asked Tongtian to replace him as overseer of the Jie Sect’s rules, and Tongtian appointed Duobao to the post.
• Lu Yuan regretted relinquishing his authority because he doubted Duobao could firmly discipline the Jie Sect’s unruly disciples.
• After returning to Qingxu Mountain, Lu Yuan realized he had inexplicably forgotten the charge from Yuanshi and Taiqing to preserve the Mystic Gate’s purity.
• Lu Yuan suspected Hongjun or the Heavenly Dao had manipulated his thoughts and concluded that even recognizing the interference might not let him escape their control.

Lu Yuan completed his comprehension of the Great Dao of Tribulation Fortune when the Black Gourd matured into the Calamity Fortune Gourd, bringing him close to his next breakthrough. He sensed Haotian stirring the Heavenly Court’s fortune, while Haotian planned a Peach Banquet to recruit support and establish his authority.

• Lu Yuan decided to conceal what he knew about the Immeasurable Tribulation and sealed himself in seclusion to comprehend the Great Dao of Tribulation Fortune.
• After sixty thousand years, Lu Yuan left seclusion with a condensed Calamity Fortune Dao Seed and found the Black Gourd nearing maturity.
• Three thousand years later, the Black Gourd matured into the Calamity Fortune Gourd, unleashing visions of calamity across Qingxu Mountain and helping Lu Yuan perfect his Dao Seed.
• Lu Yuan used the gourd to understand tribulation as both destruction and renewal, bringing him close to becoming a Great Divine Ability User.
• Lu Yuan sensed Haotian stirring the Heavenly Court’s fortune and recognized that Haotian was trying to establish a heavenly orthodoxy.
• Tai Bai Jin Xing advised Haotian to use the Ren Water Peaches to attract allies, so Haotian planned a Peach Banquet and invitations to the Saints and powerful figures of the Primordial World.

Haotian and Yaochi established the Heavenly Court and gained strength from its gathered fortune, but Yuqing Primordial Heavenly Venerate proposed dividing the Emperor’s authority among six rulers. The chapter left Haotian humiliated as the Heavenly Dao endorsed the arrangement.

• Minghe and Kunpeng mocked Haotian’s enthronement by recalling how the Witch Race had disrupted Dijun’s ceremony, and Lu Yuan and Daoist Duobao explained the old event to their companions.
• The Six Saints arrived at the Flat Peach Banquet, overshadowing Haotian and Yaochi as they began the ascension rites.
• The Heavenly Dao gathered fortune from across the Primordial World for the Heavenly Court, allowing Haotian and Yaochi to sever their corpses and reach Two-Corpse Late Quasi-Saint.
• Yuqing Primordial Heavenly Venerate proposed establishing Six Imperial Heavenly Emperors and assigning each a share of the Heavenly Court’s duties.
• The Heavenly Dao endorsed Yuqing Primordial Heavenly Venerate’s arrangement, leaving Haotian pale and humiliated as the assembled powers watched.

At Haotian’s coronation, the Sanqing named Lu Yuan Great Emperor Ziwei of the North Pole, and the new celestial authority helped him perfect the Tribulation Fortune Dao Fruit and advance to the Great Divine Ability realm. The chapter ended with Lu Yuan claiming his command over the stars while Haotian swallowed his fury and Lu Yuan considered how to use their rivalry.

• Yuqing Primordial Heavenly Venerate announced the Six Imperials’ appointments, naming Haotian the Jade Emperor, Lu Yuan the Great Emperor Ziwei, Immortal Elder Nanji the Great Emperor Changsheng, and Houtu the Imperial Earth Deity.
• The authority of the Ziwei Emperor Star and the Heavenly Court’s fortune drove Lu Yuan’s Tribulation Fortune Dao Seed to perfection.
• Lu Yuan severed the Tribulation Fortune Dao Fruit incarnation, created the Calamity Fortune Daoist, and advanced to the Great Divine Ability realm.
• The Saints, great powers, and disciples reacted with shock, admiration, envy, or wariness, while Tongtian celebrated Lu Yuan’s breakthrough.
• Haotian endured the humiliation of Lu Yuan’s rise at his coronation and secretly vowed to uproot the Mysterious Gate sects once he had secured his position.
• Lu Yuan returned the Calamity Fortune Daoist to his body, regarded Haotian’s resentment as useful pressure, and sensed the starfield responding to his new authority.

Lu Yuan claimed the Cosmic Stars Diagram, awakened the Primordial Starry Sky, and strengthened his Ziwei Emperor authority. He returned to Qingxu Mountain, recruited more than a thousand immortals to build the Ziwei Imperial Palace, and left them eager to serve under a system that promised advancement by merit.

• Lu Yuan thanked the Sanqing Saints for helping him obtain the Great Emperor Ziwei position, and Shangqing Tongtian Cult Master warned him to beware of the karma tied to the stars and the Solar and Lunar lineages.
• Lu Yuan entered Ziwei Star’s origin, refined the Cosmic Stars Diagram, and used it to bring order to the Primordial Starry Sky and elevate his Ziwei Emperor power.
• Haotian resented Lu Yuan’s growing authority while Immortal Elder Nanji reflected on the burdens facing the other Heavenly Court emperors.
• Lu Yuan returned to Qingxu Mountain and summoned seven registered disciples to become Main Star Lords, then recruited Jie Sect Disciples and immortals from other lineages to staff the Ziwei Imperial Palace.
• Lu Yuan appointed more than a thousand immortals to star positions and promised promotions based on merit, inspiring them to pledge their service.

Lu Yuan reorganized the Cosmic Stars Grand Formation, uncovered and destroyed a hidden scheme left by Dijun and Taiyi, and gained Tongtian Cult Master’s support for developing the Circumference Heavenly Star Sea. He returned to the Ziwei Imperial Palace to work out how to create a source of nourishing spiritual energy as conflict among the Primordial World’s Dao traditions began to grow.

• Lu Yuan established Ziwei as the primary Formation Eye, with the Sun and Taiyin as its auxiliaries, and redirected stellar power toward the Ziwei Emperor Star.
• Lu Yuan detected and destroyed a concealed scheme left by Dijun and Taiyi, restoring the starry sky’s orderly flow.
• Lu Yuan proposed to Tongtian Cult Master that the Circumference Heavenly Star Sea be developed into a home for the Jie Sect, and Tongtian agreed to support the plan.
• Lu Yuan returned to the Ziwei Imperial Palace and organized his officials while studying how to transform the stars’ baleful power into life-giving spiritual energy.
• The Mystic Gate traditions expanded across the Primordial World, and Lu Yuan continued contemplating how to open the Circumference Heavenly Star Sea Source Land.

Empress Nuwa sent Fuxi’s remnant soul into human reincarnation, and the Heavenly Emperor was born as Hua Xu Shi’s son. Grand Master Xuandu accepted the child as a disciple on Sage Taiqing’s behalf and watched over him, leaving the tribe celebrating his birth and naming him Pao Xi.

• Empress Nuwa brought Fuxi’s remnant soul to the Netherworld, where Houtu allowed him to enter reincarnation, and Nuwa concealed the heavenly secrets around his rebirth.
• Lu Yuan sensed the rise of human destiny and recognized that the Heavenly Emperor’s descent had begun.
• Hua Xu Shi became pregnant after Innate Vital Energy entered her body, and her tribe ostracized her when the pregnancy lasted for years.
• Sage Taiqing sent Grand Master Xuandu to find the Heaven-ordained Human Emperor, and Xuandu stopped Hua Xu Shi’s father from attacking her unborn child.
• Xuandu revealed that the child was a sacred being destined to become the Human Race Holy Lord, then nourished him until Hua Xu Shi safely gave birth to Fuxi.
• The tribe celebrated Fuxi’s birth, and the chieftain named his grandson Pao Xi.

Fuxi sensed that a final insight was needed to complete his merits as Human Emperor, so Xuandu sought guidance from Sage Taiqing, who sent Lu Yuan to retrieve the He Tu and Luo Shu from Kunpeng. Lu Yuan forced Kunpeng to surrender the treasures with Taiqing’s decree and left the North Sea carrying them, while Kunpeng vowed to remember the grievance.

• Fuxi, after leading the Human Race through many reforms, felt that he lacked a crucial insight to complete his merit and asked Xuandu for guidance.
• Xuandu consulted Sage Taiqing, who explained that Fuxi needed the He Tu and Luo Shu to derive the Innate Eight Trigrams and attain the Heavenly Emperor Dao.
• Sage Taiqing gave Lu Yuan a decree and ordered him to travel to the North Sea and demand the treasures from Kunpeng.
• Lu Yuan reached Kunpeng’s lair and invoked Taiqing’s decree, suppressing Kunpeng’s power with its Sage will.
• Kunpeng grudgingly handed Lu Yuan the He Tu and Luo Shu, then withdrew into the abyss and vowed to remember the humiliation.